Toshiba Corp.- Japanese electronics manufacturer will release a 4-gigabyte hard disk drive that can turn new cell phones into hand-held recording studios. At 0.85 inch, it is the world's smallest hard disk drive, company sources said. It will be able to store more than 1,000 songs, about the same capacity as Apple Computer, Inc.'s popular iPod mini, the Asahi Shimbun reported Monday.
Mobile phones incorporating the hard disk drives are expected to be marketed by autumn, sources said. The memory capacity is about 100 times that of memory chips conventionally used in mobile phones. Two drives can be installed, for a total of 8 gigabytes. However, Toshiba plans to increase the capacity of a single drive to 8 gigabytes, the sources said.
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